Shears



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. P. BRENNER SHEARS Filed Nov. 10, 1925 WITNESSES INVENTOR A M RterBrenner 4 BY y ATTORNEYS ered ends.

Patented June 22, 1926.

UNITED STATES PETER BRENNER, 0F MONTICELLO, NEW YORK.

SHEABS.

Application filed November 10, 1925. Serial No. 68,124.

The shears of the present invention are capable of a wide field of utility, but primarily designed for use in trimming hedges and other shrubbery.

An object ofthe invention is to provide a pair of hedge shears with which relatively thick stems may be readily severed by clean out without mutilating or chewing the sev' A further object of the invention is to provide a pair of shears of simple, practical construction which will'be rugged and durable in use, which are equippedwith a pair of cutting blades facilitating the clean and rapid cutting of relatively heav branches, without interfering with the efli ciency of the shears for lighter work.

With the above noted and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims. The invention may be more fully understood fromthe following description in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a'plan view of a pair of shears embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1. t

Fig. 3 is a similar view on the line 33 of Fig. 1. t

Fig. 4; is a plan view of the reverse side of the cutting blade 12. a

In the drawings I have used the reference characters 10, 10 to designate the handles of the shearsconnected to the shanks 11 of cuttin blades 12 and 13. The shanks 11 are 0 set as at 14 to dispose the cutting blades without the plane of the handles, and the blades are ivoted together upon a stud 15 in the usua manner. I

Inwardly projecting abutments 16 on the shanks are engageable with each other to limit the inward swinging movement of the handles 10, so that the fingers of an operator will not be pinched between the handles. 7 w

The present invention is primarily concerned with the construction of the two cutting blades of the shears. It has been discovered that the ordinary straight edged or serrated at 13 throughout its length,

providing a series of teeth 13 which will bite into a heavy branch or twig and force the same firml into engagement with the other cutting b ade 12.

The blade 12 on the other hand, is formed in its clutting edge 12 with a number of arcuate depressions 12", each defining their own curved cutting edges 12. It will be noted that the notches 12 become progressively smallerfrom the inner to the outer end of the cutting edge. The advantage of progressively reducing the size of the arcuate notches in blade 12 will be apparent,

since by virtue of the arrangement shown, the largest of these notches is provided near- I est the fulcrum 15, sothat a maximum leverage is obtained at this point.

In using the shears, the notches 12 will partially embrace a heavy twig or branch to be cut, and the teeth 13 biting into the branch will force it firmly into the notch 12 where it will be severed by a substantially uniform cutting action.

With the ordinary straight edged blades, the blades not only slip on heavy branches, but are further inefii'clent because they attempt to cut through two spaced points on v the periphery of the branch. It will be seen that the arcuate notches 12 andtheir cutting edges 12 embrace the branch and start cutting throughout a substantial portion of the circumference thereof.

It is of course to be understood that the 1. Shears of the class described includin g pivoted blades, one of said blades havmeans to bite and gri a'branch to be cut, ing a finely toothed edge, and the other and the other of sai blades including a of said blades having a series of arcuate series of arcuate cutting surfaces adapted 10 notches in its cutting edge adapted to sever to .sever abranch engaged by the other v a branch held by the teeth. blade.

, 2. A pair of shears including pivoted cutting blades, one of said blades including PETER BRENNER. 

